You asked
Before anyone takes a turn, how is everything laid out on the table?
Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstainAsked with: Descent: Legends of the Darkbg-322708-en-1e
The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.
This section clarifies some common language and rules. Entries are organized alphabetically by topic. The Rules Reference in the app provides comprehensive details for all rules, including the clarifications presented here. When an ability refers to a 'roll,' it refers to any situation in which a he
Learn to Play 32 Quick reFerence rOund sTrucTure Each game round consists of the following two phases: 1. Hero Phase: During this phase, each hero takes a turn performing actions to move, attack enemies, and interact with tokens and terrain. 2. Darkness Phase: During this phase, time passes and enem
Heroes and enemies use abilities that are presented as keywords . A keyword is a shorthand for an effect that appears frequently. The rules for each keyword are as follows: Charge: After a card is flipped (which includes when it is placed in a hero's play area at the start of a quest), if the faceup
Each ability describes when it can be used. Most commonly, abilities can be used 'before,' 'after,' or 'during' a specific time or action of the game, as follows: ◊ If the timing of an ability uses the word 'before' or 'after,' the ability's effect can be resolved immediately before or after the des
Terrified: When time passes during the darkness phase, the hero suffers one fatigue on each of their cards that has a terrify token on it. (As normal, the hero suffers one damage for each fatigue token that cannot be placed in this way.) Scarred: When a hero flips a card that has a scar token on it,
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
- corpus profile
- live
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
- timings
- search 258 ms · ask 9549 ms · total 9817 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 9817 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
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- citations (raw)
- []
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 499 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 499 boosted
- answered-before recall
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no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
- debug row retained until
- Nov 7, 2026 06:07
retrieval — what the search arm returned
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.
per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.
token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.
| fused rank | document | heading | page | fused RRF score | snippet chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | RULEBOOK Descent: Legends of the Dark — Rulebook (corpus doc 499) | clAriFicATiOns · cArd lAnguAge · cOndiTiOns · FATigue · heAlTh · herO Turns · … | p.30 | 0.032787 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Descent: Legends of the Dark — Rulebook (corpus doc 499) | p.32 | 0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 | |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Descent: Legends of the Dark — Rulebook (corpus doc 499) | keywOrds | p.20 | 0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Descent: Legends of the Dark — Rulebook (corpus doc 499) | Timing · GOLDEN RULES | p.30 | 0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Descent: Legends of the Dark — Rulebook (corpus doc 499) | p.32 | 0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 | |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Descent: Legends of the Dark — Rulebook (corpus doc 499) | seTup | p.7 | 0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Descent: Legends of the Dark — Rulebook (corpus doc 499) | recipes | p.27 | 0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Descent: Legends of the Dark — Rulebook (corpus doc 499) | rules sTrucTure · cOmpOnenTs | p.3 | 0.029412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
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generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 258 ms · first delta 9676 ms · total 9817 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 0 ms · retrieval 258 ms · ask 9549 ms · gateway work 9817 ms · total 9817 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4527
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 9
- tok/sec
- 132.4 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.068 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 13s ago)
- stream path
- streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
- watchdog
- first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
- num_ctx · think posture
- both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.
disposition
- outcome
- ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
- abstain rationale
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I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped
setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render
- decision
- NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 430), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one
Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.